rhythm-and-blues

基本解释

The immediate ancestor of rock "n" roll is rhythm -and-blues.
摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。
The migrants brought the blues and gave birth to jazz, rock, rhythm and blues and hip-hop.
黑人移居者们带来了蓝调音乐，又发明了爵士乐、摇滚、节奏布鲁斯音乐和说唱音乐。
Grammy Award winner and US rhythm-and-blues singer R Kelly will perform the ceremony's showpiece song, "Sign of a Victory" with South Africa's Soweto Spiritual Singers.
格莱美奖得主、美国R&B巨星劳·凯利将与南非灵魂歌手一同演唱开幕式主题曲《胜利的迹象》，堪称一次“非西合璧”。
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He was a success in many different kinds of music -- popular,country,religious, and rhythm and blues.
He received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in nineteen ninety-three.
Usher discovered him. As the rhythm and blues star tells it, when they first met, Justin sang him an Usher song -- and sang it better.

His father, Joseph Jackson, had been in a rhythm-and-blues band, the Falcons, and he channelled his thwarted creative aspirations into his children.
NEWYORKER: The Pale King

Rhythm and blues is a style of popular music developed in the 1940s from blues music, but using electrically amplified instruments. The abbreviation R&B is also used.